A lot of spammers use `spiders` to automatically trawl websites for email addresses. Tracking the spammers Today we present 'Spam Busting II', silicon.com readers' very own anti-spam advice. I have found a product called `SpamWeasel` to be a fine...
Because of the standard and widely used '@hotmail.com' address, MSN has been particularly targeted by spammers. But how do spammers get our email details? Brightmail is now employing this very fact to combat the spammers.
Kevin Fiske, one BT customer who experienced the annoyance of the blacklisting first-hand, found he was unable to email a variety of servers from any address within his company. A particularly ironic twist in the tale means that Fiske is even...
The tricks that spammers use to weasel their emails into inboxes and get unsuspecting users to open them are also being restricted under the so-called Can Spam bill. It's thought the prospect of a 'do not spam' registry - potentially full of...
Spammers typically cover their tracks by hacking into unprotected email servers, or open relays; by hijacking other email servers; and by falsifying names and email addresses in the email sender field.
Spammers, phishers and other internet fraudsters, be warned. By restricting spammers to a limited set of domain names, however, Yahoo! In the long run, DomainKeys is more promising than existing anti-spam and anti-phishing technologies, which rely...
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